Quotes about teachings
Masaharu Anesaki - Buddhist Art in Its Relation to Buddhist Ideals: With Special Reference to Buddhism in Japan
All instruction is but as a finger pointing to the moon and he whose gaze is fixed upon the pointer will never see beyond.
Thomas Cleary - Flower Ornament Scripture: Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra: v. 1
The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.
Sunday Adelaja -
Just like today, the Protestants and their teachings had to fight with the prevalent order of the day which taught that: Work is only for making profit. Make money with minimum effort. The culture of the day viewed work as a burden to be avoided. The secular world of the time taught that you should do no more than what was enough for good living.
Sunday Adelaja -
Through their teachings they dignify even the most mundane professions. According to them any profession or work that adds to the common good of man must be respected and it is dignified
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little Town on the Prairie
She could not think what it would be to teach school twelve miles away from home, along among strangers. The less she thought of it the better, for she must go, and she must meet whatever happened as it came. "Now Mary can have everting she needs, and she can come home this next summer," she said. "Oh, Pa, do you think I - I can teach school?" "I do, Laura," said Pa. "I am sure of it.
Neil Strauss - The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
Life is a learned skill, but instead of teaching it, our culture force-fills developing minds with long division and capital cities—until, at the end of the mandatory period of bondage that’s hyperbolically called school, we’re sent into the world knowing little about it. And so, left on our own to figure out the most important parts of life, we make mistakes for years until, by the time we’ve learned enough from our stumbling to be effective human beings, it’s time for us to die.
Sunday Adelaja -
Let’s downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence.
Sunday Adelaja -
The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals
Sunday Adelaja -
Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to work and bring about productivity.
Sunday Adelaja -
Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric.
Sunday Adelaja -
When we tell people that God will do this and that without teaching people how to do their best, we are doing a disservice to them.
Pat Conroy - A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn’t admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love with—the way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could b
Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth
The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)
Errol Anthony Smythe. -
The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion.
Sunday Adelaja -
Churches are no more relevant because they haven’t balanced there teachings.
Sunday Adelaja -
The balance message is that churches are to teach people the miracle workers themselves.
Sunday Adelaja -
Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to discover their territory and cultivate their land.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam -
See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.
Seanan McGuire - Snakes and Ladders
For is it not said That Girl Knows No Fear, and Dammit, Fran, She's Going To Get Herself Et, and This Is From Your Side Of The Family, Jonathan, No One In My Family Has Ever Hugged A Basilisk Before?
Andrew M. Greeley - Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy
So you would kill Old Ireland?” Anna Livia said. “You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn’t be.
Sunday Adelaja -
The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so they tried to do their best and give the best quality to God by giving the best quality to man.
Sunday Adelaja -
We call ourselves Protestants, but we have totally departed from the teachings of the early Protestants. Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Calvin would turn in their graves, if they hear the kind of teachings we are now feeding the people of God with.
Paul Silway -
When you hear the right teaching about God your lives will be changed and then you can change the world.
Paul Silway -
When you hear the right teaching about God, your lives will be changed and then you can change the world.
Plato. -
If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.
Pirkei Avot -
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?
Parul Wadhwa - The Masquerade
Hostel is one phase in a man's life that teaches him what Indian mothers fail to teach their children despite the use of potential weapons like rolling pin,broom stick, wiper so on and henceforth. Who knows if you are luckier, you might just experience your bachelorhood as a paying guest.
Felix Wantang - God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible
Any teachings that fail to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of life, is absolutely antichrist.John 1:1-13.
Sunday Adelaja -
The first obligation for every church is to teach their members the value of hard work.
Brandon Sanderson - The Bands of Mourning
What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?
Shepherd Hoodwin - Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores the Michael Teachings
All true teachings expand awareness, not limit it.
honeya -
Quran, Bible, BhagwadGita are your (as an follower) way of life and not everyone's way of life, so don't force people to change. These Holy books teach you to change yourself (for good) and not others.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam -
I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline - yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential.
Phillip Gary Smith - HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
Gratifying when the basics reflect a fresh light, leading to real continuing ed.
Debasish Mridha -
There is nothing wrong and nothing right. Our teachings and thoughts make it so.
Prinx Maurice -
I know you don't believe what you teach. But I believe all what you teach. Either I am the fool or you are.
Brandon Sanderson - The Bands of Mourning
There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so.""You are not encouraging me. Aren't You omnipotent?""Hardly," Harmony said, smiling. "But I believe that parts of me could be.
Matthew Donnelly -
Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.
Hermes Trismegistus -
My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.
Suchet chaturvedi -
The world is a palace without bedsheets
Laura Weakley -
Leadership isn't about power for the sake of power - not true leadership. Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can't make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly.
Ming-Dao Deng -
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?
Sunday Adelaja -
If the teachings of the early Christians changed Rome and the entire Roman Empire, we can’t point to any great change that the teachings coming from our pulpits today are producing upon our world in general
Sameh Elsayed -
If those who know leave those who don't, don't....... the world will turn to a school teaching ignorance.
Anthony T. Hincks -
Huang Sung turned to the master and asked, "Master, will it come to pass?"The master looked up into the sky and then turned to Huang Sung, "When the sky is red from our tears and the earth is blackened by the ashes of our forefathers and then, when we look inwards to where our hearts once were, then we shall know that it has come to pass, but not in the time allotted to man."From a book that I am writing, called, "The Teachings of Huang Sung.
Kiana Davenport - Shark Dialogues
God not da faddah, he just the spoiled moody child, but you got to go t'rough him to get to da real power, his mama, Mot'er God. She da real Almighty! She run da heavens alone. Original single parent. When somethin' bad happen, usually mean she let God try his hand, and he screw up plenny. You need something important, you go directly Mot'er God. Jesus, Mary, Joseph? Dey just small potatoes, part of the chorus, neh?
Sunday Adelaja -
Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak.
Abhijit Naskar -
Misery teaches you more than joy.
Abhijit Naskar -
Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character.